The Fiscal Year 2007-08 produced results for which the Augustana community is grateful. The Annual Report includes fund-raising, endowment and economic performance, as well as quality and cost comparisons with other institutions.

A gift of $872,000 from the estate of Lyle G. and Othella B. Christensen will be used to support Augustana’s general endowment, the Lyle G. and Othella B. Christensen Scholarship endowment, and the proposed expansion and renovation of the Gilbert Science Complex.

The word's been thrown around a lot lately, but this week the National Bureau of Economic Research officially declared that the country is in a recession and has been for a year. Economics Professor Reynold Nesiba talks with Keloland's Angela Kennecke on Money Matters.